September Baseball Collapses: Will the Boston Red Sox and Atlanta Braves Join the List? [SLIDESHOW]

Luckily there's a word that starts in "F" that is synonymous with "Collapse." And so, from Philadelphia's Phinest, we get "The Phold." The Phillies held a 6.5-game lead with 12 games to play. Then they lost 10 straight. At the end, they dropped to second place in the National League, a game behind the Cardinals. Photo: Reuters

One of the runs that during which everything the Mets did caused their fans to squirm and shout, "Oh, those Mets!" Oh, right, that's usually most of what the Mets do on a season-by-season basis. But as this story goes, the Mets held a seven-game lead on Sept. 12 over the Phillies. They go 5-12, the Phillies go 13-5 and the Rockies go 13-1. And when the dust settled, the Mets were out of a division title and Wild Card spot. Photo: Reuters

The Tigers took control of the AL Central in early May. Four months later, they had a seven-game lead. Oh, those Mets!...er, Tigers. They slipped, but still had a three-game lead to the Twins with four games to play. Then they lost to the Twins. Then they lost two of three in a series that weekend. Then, there was a playoff. The Tigers took a lead in the 10th inning at the Metrodome. The Twins tied it in the bottom half. The Tigers lost, 6-5, in 12 innings. Photo: Reuters

Current Rays manager Joe Maddon was a part of this collapse. The Angels held a six-game lead on Sept. 13. The Angels played so badly the rest of the way that the Mariners took a three-game lead in the AL West at one point. The Angels came back, winning their last five to force a one-game playoff. Their roller-coaster September ended with an ugly 9-1 loss in the playoff. Photo: Reuters

Using a very non-scientific conversion method, this would be like the 2007 Mets blowing an 8.5-game lead in 2007 with 17 to play. Of course, it was seven with 17. The Blue Jays held a 3.5-game lead over the Tigers in the AL East with seven to play. They did not win again. Their lead shrunk to one, as they prepared to face the Tigers in the final series of the season. The Tigers swept the series -- winning all three games by one run. Photo: Reuters

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Jacoby Ellsbury and the Red Sox are on the verge of a historic September collapse.The Boston Red Sox and Atlanta Braves are on the brink of baseball history - the wrong side of it.

On Sept. 1, the Red Sox were in first place in the American League East. They led Tampa Bay by nine games. In the other circuit, the Braves led the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Wild Card race by 8.5 games.

Less than a month later, both are tied at the top of the Wild Card standings. In their honor, here are a few of the most spectacular September collapses in baseball history.

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